Kiya

Kiya was originally commissioned by Al Jazeera America as a VR companion episode to the Fault Lines documentary Death in Plain Sight, which tracked the correlation between lax gun laws and domestic violence homicides in South Carolina.

Partner

Al Jazeera America

Format

Volumetric CG
360° CG

Premiere

TEDWomen 2015

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The piece charts a harrowing episode in which two sisters try in vain to save a third from being shot by her ex-boyfriend. The events were recreated by actors wearing motion capture suits, and the environment was based on location and crime scene photographs.

Sources include interviews with the survivors; 911 calls made by the sisters; and police and court records.

Kiya premiered at TEDWomen in 2015 and was selected by the New York Times to be part of its inaugural selection of VR films for the Sundance Film Festival in 2016.